Wigan Athletic’s exciting star midfielder, Victor Moses, has finally received official clearance to play for Nigeria. Speaking today following the decision a FIFA spokesperson confirmed, “After having thoroughly examined the entire documentation remitted by the Nigerian Football Federation, the Single Judge concluded that the player Victor Moses fulfils the objective prerequisites as provided for […]
It’s the sort of phrase your Gran would use for the woman down the road who paints herself as a bit classy and then spends her Friday nights flirting with all the blokes down the club, but there’s no connection there with Saturday’s visitors, so why is that the phrase comes to mind, anytime I […]
Fulham took all three points from this relegation battle six pointer, a result which all but the most one eyed Cottager will agree that they didn’t deserve as Wigan peppered toe Fulham goal without success and Fulham scored two goals from three attempts, both due to Wigan mistakes. Wigan manager Roberto Martinez opted to keep […]
Football Manager 2012 (FM) is up and running and already with only the pre season completed I am feeling the pressure. FM is an amazingly realistic game and there are a few things you notice straight away. The first was that FM12 lists Kirkland as out injured with his back, this is before his […]
Good performances eventually yield good results, that’s the theory anyway. This was very much the point Roberto Martinez was making at the end of last season and referred to the draws against Villa, Spurs and Everton in the latter months of the season.
Many words have been scribed about our plight and the fractious fallibility in some eyes that our manager in situ is not the guy for the job. Fair enough, we are all entitled to our valued opinion but do you not think that we are […]
Tie of the round for me is Wrexham v York City, first against third in the Conference, however the Budwiser FATV match is the North East derby between Gateshead who are sixth in the Conference and a team […]
Latics forthcoming game in early 2012 @ The DW against Manchester City will now be played on Monday 16th January 2012 (originally Saturday 14th) at 8.00pm, due to being selected for TV coverage by the great god that is Sky Sports. However should […]
Wigan arrived at St James Park seeking to break a losing run of five Premier League games and win their first ever Premier League game away against Newcastle United. Wigan manager Roberto Martinez opted to freshen things up replacing Di Santo, McCarthy and Gohuri with the returning Rodallega and Figueroa and handing a Premier League […]
As you have probably seen, we lent the Geordies a little piece of the TNS brains trust yesterday, so it’s only fair that we get a little piece back, isn’t it? So we dragged in our North East and sneakily Wigan sympathising correspondent @cognoscentinovo shone the DW stadium floodlights in his eyes and threatened to […]